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Image of Tap dance students practicing at TTAAPP Central, Seattle, January 2003
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Tap dance students practicing at TTAAPP Central, Seattle, January 2003

Darrlyn (Cook) Smith (1938-2002) and her husband Joseph Smith, both educators, relocated to Seattle from New Orleans in the early 1960s. In Seattle, Darrlyn Smith taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, where she kept a box of tap dance shoes in her classroom and taught tap to interested students during recess. Darrlyn and Joseph Smith later owned the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030114.CD07.003
Date:2003
Image of Tap dance students in front of mirror TTAAPP Central, Seattle, January 2003
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Tap dance students in front of mirror TTAAPP Central, Seattle, January 2003

Darrlyn (Cook) Smith (1938-2002) and her husband Joseph Smith, both educators, relocated to Seattle from New Orleans in the early 1960s. In Seattle, Darrlyn Smith taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, where she kept a box of tap dance shoes in her classroom and taught tap to interested students during recess. Darrlyn and Joseph Smith later owned the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030114.CD07.004
Date:2003
Image of Spectators watch Lion Dance performers at Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003
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Spectators watch Lion Dance performers at Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003

Tet, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is celebrated annually at the Seattle Center where festivities begin with a lion dance and continue with cooking demonstrations, music workshops, photo exhibits, martial arts, arts and crafts for kids, and Vietnamese Opera performances. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the first three days of the new year represent what will happen the rest of the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030126.CD02.01.001
Date:2003
Image of Spectators watch Lion Dance performers during Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003
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Spectators watch Lion Dance performers during Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003

Tet, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is celebrated annually at the Seattle Center where festivities begin with a lion dance and continue with cooking demonstrations, music workshops, photo exhibits, martial arts, arts and crafts for kids, and Vietnamese Opera performances. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the first three days of the new year represent what will happen the rest of the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030126.CD02.01.002
Date:2003
Image of Handbill for a meeting on the Teen Dance Ordinance, Seattle, December 13, 1986
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Handbill for a meeting on the Teen Dance Ordinance, Seattle, December 13, 1986

Although the city of Seattle passed its first regulations on teen musical events in 1967, enforcement was minimal. In 1985, the city’s Teen Dance Ordinance tried to severely tighten up regulations on youth dance clubs and musical events, citing drug use, sexual abuse, and underage drinking. This led to several decades of protest. Opponents pointed to the effect this had…
ID Number:2002.23.2.24.1
Date:1986
Image of Handbill for rally protesting proposed youth curfew, Seattle, July 21, 1986
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Handbill for rally protesting proposed youth curfew, Seattle, July 21, 1986

After Seattle’s 1985 Teen Dance Ordinance tried to severely tighten up regulations on youth dance clubs and musical events, citing drug use, sexual abuse, and underage drinking, the Youth Defense Campaign and other groups organized to try to repeal these and other laws affecting youth, like a 1986 proposed teen curfew.This July 1986 Youth Defense Campaign urges people to attend…
ID Number:2002.23.2.24.2
Date:1986
Image of Handbill for youth rally in protest of teen dance regulations, Seattle, February 4, 1987
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Handbill for youth rally in protest of teen dance regulations, Seattle, February 4, 1987

Although the city of Seattle passed its first regulations on teen dance events in 1967, enforcement was minimal. In 1985, the city’s Teen Dance Ordinance tried to severely tighten up regulations on youth dance clubs and musical events, citing drug use, sexual abuse, and underage drinking. This led to several decades of protest. Opponents pointed to the effect this had…
ID Number:2002.23.2.30.1
Date:1987
Image of Handbill promoting the Youth Defense Campaign, Seattle, 1987
Poster

Handbill promoting the Youth Defense Campaign, Seattle, 1987

In 1985, Seattle’s Teen Dance Ordinance tried to severely tighten up regulations on youth dance clubs and musical events, citing drug use, sexual abuse, and underage drinking. That year, police broke up a grunge concert at the Gorilla Gardens dance club, causing injuries and arrests. The Youth Defense Campaign organized in protest of the ordinance and the city’s crack-down. This…
ID Number:2002.23.2.30.2
Date:1987
Image of Black Arts/West presents Ceremonies in Dark Old Men poster, June 1975
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Black Arts/West presents Ceremonies in Dark Old Men poster, June 1975

Black Arts/West was Seattle's first Black theater and functioned as a three component program:, dance, and an art gallery displaying the work of local and national artists. As a division of the Central Area Motivation Program, an anti-poverty agency, it was charged with getting young people involved and learning the necessary skills to survive and flourish in society.This poster advertises…
ID Number:2002.23.3.51.1
Date:1975
Image of The Right to Marry order form, 1996
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The Right to Marry order form, 1996

This flier describes the video "The Right to Marry," a documentary film about the struggle for legal marriage equality for same-sex couples, created by the Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples in Seattle and produced and directed by Demian. The bottom of the flier is an order form to purchase a copy of the video.This item is one…
ID Number:2002.23.6.33.1
Date:1996
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